Discovering a new author is always exciting. I often flip through books before they go out on the shelves in our library, but I seem to come across the most fascinating books when I am changing over records to move books from the "new" area to the stacks. This novel drew me in from the first page, where Lucie Walker suddenly finds herself standing knee deep in the cold water of San Francisco Bay with no memory of how she came to be there. She is suffering from dissociative fugue disorder, according to the experts, but why?
You might expect from the opening that this novel is a psychological thriller, but it's not. It is a lovely story about two broken people finding each other, experiencing a crisis, and each going through the process of finding themselves and working their way back to each other. Some reviewers were dismissive of Lucie's amnesia as a literary device, but I thought that the way the main characters, Lucie and Grady, interacted and reacted during her period of readjustment was brilliantly and beautifully portrayed. I enjoyed this novel from start to finish!
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